Change and Continuity of Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration
By:The Germans(Brett Krumenacker and Shane Daggett)

Turkish Migrations

  • the Turks went from a meek diplomacy to a ravenous empire in a subsequent amount of time.
  • They were Polytheistic in the beginning but soon recognized Buddhism and Confucianism as truthful and profound doctrines.
  • When the Turks took Persia they placed caliphs as figureheads to the public and appointed sultans to local power and control of diplomacy.
  • The Turks began their conquest of the Byzantium empire in 1071 and toppled the capital of Constantinople in 1453.
  • The Turks had conflicting agendas and split into the Saljuqs(headed west) and the Ghaznavids(headed east).
  • The Ghaznavids established a non-nomadic civilization when they settled in northern India.

Birth of the Mongolian Empire

  • The man who unified the Mongol empire under one ruler was Temujin or Chinggis Khan.
  • The Mongolian people were originally tribal groups, but under Chinggis Khan, became a powerful military organization.
  • Policies much better than the old, were established unto the Mongolian empire, by Chinggis Khan.
  • Enemies who surrendered to the Mongolian armies, were treated kindly by the armies, but any enemy who resisted the Mongols, were slaughtered, or used as shields in future battles.
  • They went on many conquests, and conquered many lands.
  • Upon taking control of China, they raided the capital, until the raids became campains of conquest.
  • The Mongol empire, was split into four regional empires, after the death of Chinggis Khan.
  • The Mongol empire did not expand its borders very much after Chinggis Khan's death.
  • Mongol rulers realized they needed to become governers, as well as governers, and failed to acomidate this role.
  • The Mongols tolerated all religions, until Ilkhan Ghazan publicly converted to Islam, influencing the conversion of hundreds of Mongols, and the slaughter of Christians and Jews.
  • Long-distance travel and trade became more prominant then in earlier eras, because of Mongolian orders in their realms.
  • The Mongol policy of resettling people in new lands, encouraged Eurasian integration.

Decline of the Mongols, and after the Mongols

  • The ilkhan in Persia introduced paper money, a failure int he financial business, and lead to the fall of commerce, and eventually, Mongolian rule.
  • Mongol rule in China collapsed because of economic dimensions, factional divisions, and epidemic diseases.
  • As the strength that the Mongols had garnered over the years waned, the Turks resumed the expansive campains that the Mongols had interupted.
  • The turkish conqueror Tamerlane took the land in Persia that the Mongols had vaccated.
  • Tamerlane's reign was split in four after his death, because of bitter conflicts between his sons and grandsons.

Foundation of the Ottoman Empire

  • Took the place of Tamerlane's reign after his last vestiges disappeared.
  • Osman, the founder of the Ottoman empire, broke away from the saljuq turks, to build his own state, at the expense of the Byzantine empire.
  • Changed from a nomadic society, when the constructed a foothold in the Balkan peninsula.
  • Tamerlane temporarily stopped the conquests, destroying the Ottoman empire, and subjecting it to his rule, until his death.
  • Captured Constantinople, renamed it Istanbul, and converted it as the capital of the Ottoman empire.
Checked by:Kelsey Shoberg
approved-- ERIC ZHONG
Checked by Sarah delgado